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☞ Best wishes for 2018! Winter Update, little by little.
☞ Detailed book reviews for available items are now back up (links, and prices, in stocklists pages).
☞ The page Original Prints, Posters, Drawings & Artworks has just been vastly updated with tons of new collectible items (and more to come).
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Remarques & avis / Review — An acclaimed testimony of the aftermath of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima, for which Hiromi TSUCHIDA and Ryuichiro FUKIAGE won the Nobuo Ina Award. They searched for the 186 Children of the Atomic Bombing whose experiences were recorded in the 1951 eponymous book (Genbaku no Ko); they found 107, 6 had died, 16 didn't want to participate, 8 didn't want to have their picture taken, and in the end 77 were interviewed. Below the pictures are found excerpts of the testimonies the then-kids made in 1951, adding to the contrast. A very powerful and very touching work.

Reproduction and use obviously forbidden without the copyright owner's consent. After all, it's somebody's work: shame on those who steal it.

News in Short

As some of you have already noticed, prices (attractively revised) are displayed again (work in progress) on AJapaneseBook. Detailed book reviews for available items have also been restored: links will be found in stocklists pages.

A selection of Japanese books and myself are also to be found, within opening hours, at Chez les Libraires associés in Paris. Feel free to drop by. Please contact us beforehand if you are looking for specific books or are interested in specific artists.